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Having recently discovered how great octopi are, and now having discovered a cache of tech/ethics syllabi, I just need to find what other words with Latin pluralization lead to amazing things. There must be a reverse dictionary somewhere.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lyosha
I'm a linguistic descriptivist. Tons of thing we now consider bedrock English grammar are overeager Latin grammar pedants putting Latin rules into English grammar books to make them thicker than the competition's books. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Octopi!https://twitter.com/sometimeslyosha/status/951551219130040321 …
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Poster child for this, I suppose, would be Thou Shalt Not Split Infinitives. (In Latin, you can't, as it's only a single word; trying to explain why that should be a governing principle of English would be enough to seriously addle my brain.)
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I had a college professor legit try to tell me that Star Trek was bad writing and that it should be "to go, boldly, where no one has gone before"
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